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3 Evaluation of Gwanggyo Technovalley
Gwanggyo Technovalley (GTV) is located at Suwon City, the capital of Gyeonggi
Province, which is the surrounding area of Seoul, Korea. In Gyeonggi, there are
much resources available in terms of researchers, research centers, and industries.
However, it is relatively neglected in terms of central government's support
because of its policy, emphasizing the balanced development of nation between
metropolitan area, and other regions. Recognizing lack of central government,
Gyeonggi province tries to have its own regional innovation cluster. GTV has been
started as the part of new Gwanggyo Region and it is expected to play a sort of
innovation hub in the region Table
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.
Gwanggyo Technovalley has become a kind of innovation cluster in the
structure when Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology (AICT) was
opened in March 2008. Currently there are research institutes, companies, and
universities at GTV campus. Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center (KANC) was
established in 2008 to promote the development of the Nano-technology (NT) and
related businesses in Korea. Gyeonggi Bio Center (GGBC) was established in
2007 to strengthen global competitive power and support the bio-industries
industries in Gyeonggi Province. Gyeonggi Small & Medium Business Center
(GSBC) was established in 2002 to provide customized supporting service to its
small and medium-sized enterprises. Gyeonggi R&DB Center (GR&DBC) was
established in 2007 to build knowledge network among innovation actors by
attracting internal and external excellent research institutes and companies.
Finally, The AICT was established jointly with the Seoul National University. It
has 2 graduate programs and 9 research centers. AICT pursues collaborative and
convergent researches in the application of the latest technologies in IT, BT, and
NT with the objective of commercialization Table
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Gwanggyo Technovalley as close to Seoul, enjoys good location advantage and
it can have some synergy with other innovation clusters in Gyeonggi Province. In
addition, the support of regional government is quite strong. As AICT has been
established, the hardware structure is almost completed.
It is too early to say which development stage the GTV is at. Judging from the
interviews with the people in GTV, it seems to be approaching into an intermediate
stage between 'Pre-Cluster' and 'Emerging-Cluster' in terms of development stage
Table 1
Status of GTV
Location
Iui-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon city,
Gyeonggi province
Size
269,404 square meters
Construction Period
45 months (June 2004-February 2008)
Investment
$ 476,250,000
Tenant companies
About 230
Major fields
IT, BT, NT, CT/Original technology,
and technology commercialization
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